antiaircraft gun

Questions about antiaircraft gun

What does antiaircraft gun mean?

antiaircraft gun means "artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes".

What is another word for antiaircraft gun?

Close synonyms include antiaircraft, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antiaircraft gun a common word?

antiaircraft gun is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.